Traditional methods & techniques can get obsolete—the same with cybersecurity. Businesses have gone digital, and legacy security infrastructure lacks the bite to tackle sophisticated threats lurking around to breach into digital domains.
The attack rate is at an all-time high. Over 60% of the global digital enterprises have noticed increased cyber-attacks in the last 18 months. Most of them are signature-less attacks. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is the most common enterprise security solution, which looks at log entries to detect Indicators of Compromise (IoC) and reconstruct any attack scenario, depending on the collected events. SIEM is an ineffective traditional approach and is almost toothless in circumventing complex attacks.
Digitally empowered infrastructures, which are a blend of on-premise, endpoints, cloud, IoT, endpoints, & social media, have an expanded attack surface, making it even harder to secure and protect them from malicious attacks. More the sophistication of threats, more the difficulty in detecting and remediating a breach.
The biggest challenge is the non-integration of the security ecosystem, lack of skilled resources, and manual processes used to monitor and secure the network. Hackers are aware of these challenges and use them to the best of their advantage. Cyber resiliency is, therefore, very critical.
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services can transcend traditional security approaches by accelerating threat detection and response time.
MDR seamlessly integrates multiple security technologies to work together across environments. It also enables various security technologies to work seamlessly together, across all environments to eliminate security gaps and speed up responses to an attack or breach. The service also includes SIEM for security monitoring, security intelligence, threat hunting, endpoint threat detection, User Behavior and Security Analytics (UEBA). MDR also leverages Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to investigate and auto-contain threats before launching an orchestrated response.
Unlike traditional security service provider such as MSSP, an MDR service provider can provide 24x7 monitoring of the IT infrastructure, holistic incident analysis, incident triaging, forensics, and response recommendations.
MDR follows a three-phase, process-driven security approach through the attack lifecycle.
To proactively identify threats 24x7 and eliminate false positives. The objective is to ensure astute focus to secure digital assets, networks, web, data, cloud, IoT devices, email, endpoints, application, platform, people, and process.
Leverage advanced security technologies to detect anomalies and respond to vectors by using rule-based detection, threat analytics, deception technologies, incident response, Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), UEBA, and packet capture module.
Enable faster recovery of compromised devices and assets through prioritization, forensics, documentation, recovery planning, etc. to improve the security posture for future threat instances.
The three-phase process gets its maximum efficiency when executed through a 360 degree MDR architecture. A 360-degree MDR architecture provides complete visibility into the enterprise infrastructure - be it on be it on-premise, cloud, or any virtual environment. Every threat gets identified, and a threat response plan is quickly initiated. The plan includes risk management, threat containment, and threat elimination. This is a proactive approach to auto contain and defeat the threat to minimize the effect of the breach.
Interoperability will soon become the would become the characteristic of next-generation cyber defense as enterprises increase their focus towards improved threat detection, investigation, and response capability.
By adopting 360 degree MDR services, enterprises can stay ahead of attackers by:
When you realize the need for an MDR service provider, the next rational step is to find an MDR partner. Choose the right MDR partner can be a tough job. Use these criteria during the selection process.
To know more about MDR and its capabilities, schedule a demo with Aujas MDR experts by writing to contact@aujas.com